Nov 21 2011
Dear Ms. Singh: This is the fourth book in a connected series with the three other stories written by three other authors. I haven’t read the other three and I don’t feel like my reading experience was impaired in any way. The prologue lays the table. A long lived people leaved peacefully and prosperously in [...]
Nov 19 2011
Dear Ms. Grey: Right before I received your book for review, a friend of mine told me she had a “meet cute” on a train. She ran into a guy who dropped a tux he was carrying. She later found out he was the best man and the tux was for the wedding. I joked [...]
Nov 11 2011
Dear Ms. Featherstone: I confess that I read this book because I just loved the cover. The positioning of the characters, the color of the dress, the frills at the cuff of the man’s outfit. It was very evocative. The soft against the hard. It’s a clinch but an evocative, sophisticated clinch. This is [...]
Nov 8 2011
Dear Ms. Sagara, Ah, the peril of the long-running series. I knew in the back of my mind that your ongoing Elantra series consisted of many books but checking Amazon, I see that Cast in Ruin is book 7. This both surprises me and makes me wince. Surprise because I can’t believe it’s been that [...]
Nov 3 2011
Dear Ms. Gold: I probably should have stopped reading at the first chapter when I figured out that the male protagonist of the story would not figure out he had a son until said son was 10 years old, but I didn’t. Unfortunately, the story never got any better. Jessica Keller and Chase Reed are [...]
Nov 3 2011
If you own a Kindle device (as opposed to using an App) AND you are a Prime member, you can take advantage of Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. It has about 5,000 titles in there and it’s all non agency books. While Agency publishers (and others) are balking at the potential loss of revenue, I would [...]
Nov 1 2011
Freebies from Samhain: Freebie for month of November: Touching Lace by Anne Rainey | Amazon | nook Freebie from November 1 to Nov 14: Carinian’s Seeker by T.J. Michaels | Amazon | nook ****** Galley Cat reports that a self published author offered a free sample at BN, Amazon discovered this and lowered the price to his book to free. Part of Amazon’s contract is [...]
Oct 25 2011
Dear Ms. Dahl: I had been planning to review Good Girls Don’t, but by the time I got to it, Bad Boys Do was out and Real Men Will was imminent. So I figured I might as well review all three, since the trilogy’s release dates are so close together. I’m not a stickler for [...]
Oct 20 2011
Dear Ms. Reavis, I’m so glad that by the time I’d heard of these books, the second one was already out and the third one wasn’t too much of a wait. In Little Darlin’ you make me actually like a secret baby book and toss in a marriage of convenience just for fun. In this [...]
Oct 19 2011
EFF, a watchdog for internet privacy rights, questioned Amazon about SILK and the use of data to create predictive web browsing patterns. According to the answers given by Amazon to EFF, Amazon does not intercept encrypted traffic and it logs only the URL requested, the timestamp, and token identifying the session. EFF deems this to [...]
Oct 17 2011
“When photographer Skyler Quinn first fixed her lens on gorgeous cowboy Trace Wolf Track, she liked what she saw but didn’t give it much thought. Until everywhere she went—the rodeo, the Double D Wild Horse Sanctuary—there he was, and the heat between them built to the boiling point. As a widow struggling with debts and [...]
Sep 26 2011
Dear Ms. Milan: Toward the end of the review it is going to sound like I didn’t like this book but that would be the wrong impression. I did like this book. I liked it but in a lot of ways I found Mark, like his older brother Ash, to be almost saintly in his [...]
Aug 30 2011
Dear Ms James: I think I have been waiting for you to write a book like The King’s Courtesan since I read Broken Wing. This book has a confidence and maturity, a depth, in fact, that impressed me, despite the numerous well-used genre tropes and devices it employs and the predictability of the overall story [...]
Aug 26 2011
First, I want to rant about the horrible scanning errors in this book. One or two wouldn’t really have bothered me and I’m hardly the grammar police, but I counted over one-hundred of them (number 1 for letters I and l, regular dashes where there should be emdashes, random words that are italicized or underlined, [...]
Aug 26 2011
I read Ried’s Gold Ring of Betrayal and The Bellini Bride after Dear Author’s recommendation several months ago and enjoyed them. When I saw that some of Ried’s backlist was being republished I purchased Marriage on the Rebound. I enjoyed the angst and the occasional humor in the story. I even liked Rafe once some of the back-story was revealed. What annoyed me was that the heroine in [...]
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